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The Afghan outlet Tolo News reported on Wednesday that transgender people in the country are facing heightened fear of brutal violence under the Taliban rule, detailing the story of one person beaten and burned by a gang of attackers.

President Joe Biden is nearing the end of his first year in office – a meaningful milestone after a year of global chaos spurred on by incoherent and sometimes seemingly deliberately counterproductive policies.

The Afghan news agency Khaama Press, citing the BBC, reported on Tuesday that the administration of President Joe Biden may soon unfreeze Afghan government assets, allowing the Taliban to access them, in the name of helping the impoverished people of the country.

Facebook, which was able to suppress the New York Post’s bombshell Hunter Biden laptop story within hours of its publication in 2020, failed to stop Islamic extremist content from being shared extensively on the platform, according to a report.

Volunteers from the nonprofit organization Project Dynamo rescued 39 U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents stranded in Afghanistan on Friday, according to reports.

Afghanistan’s Taliban allowed a small group of women’s rights activists to stage a protest in Kabul on Thursday despite having largely suppressed the liberties advocated by the feminists — such as the right to “work, freedom, and equality” — since seizing control of the country in mid-August.

Plumlee said when he exited a truck to confront suicide bombers in Afghanistan in 2013, he “absolutely” thought he was going to die.

Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Wednesday he invited the Taliban to invade and capture Kabul after the sitting president, Ashraf Ghani, fled the country. Karzai said he held the door for the Taliban so they could “protect the population” and ensure Kabul did not “fall into chaos.”

The human rights organization Amnesty International denounced the Taliban for weeks of “repeated war crimes and relentless bloodshed” on Wednesday in an analysis of the final days of the U.S.-backed Afghan government.

The White House defended leaving over 400 Americans behind in Afghanistan, arguing Tuesday that government officials did not use tracking software to monitor them.

Afghanistan’s Passport Department announced Monday the recent arrest of at least 75 “middlemen” and “dozens of other commission agents” for allegedly selling or attempting to sell “fake” Afghan passports and identification cards to an unknown number of people in Afghanistan.

Afghanistan’s terrorist Taliban leaders issued a decree outlining the rights of women under the regime, but getting an education or finding a job was not included.

Macron wants representation in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan but insists this move won’t legitimise the Kabul regime.

The British government has told Breitbart London it knows how many Afghans airlifted to the UK as evacuees were on watch lists or had previously been deported from the country — but insists it is not in the public interest to reveal it.

An Illinois Republican with ties to Afghanistan said that she aided in the August U.S. evacuation efforts after Taliban forces took over the country and that she knows people who are still stuck there.

Iranian soldiers clashed with Taliban members along the Iran-Afghanistan border between Iran’s Sistan and Balochistan province and Afghanistan’s Nimruz province on Wednesday, Iran’s foreign ministry confirmed.

The United Nations (U.N.) said Wednesday it “deferred” a decision on allowing Afghanistan’s Taliban entry to the intergovernmental organization’s General Assembly, effectively denying the group U.N. membership for now.

The World Bank is “exploring ways” to bypass U.S. sanctions on the Taliban so that it may redirect roughly $500 million from an Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF) to United Nations (U.N.) aid agencies, Reuters reported on Monday citing “people familiar with the plans.”

Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban regime has killed or disappeared 47 ex-members of Afghanistan’s former government security force in the weeks since the Taliban deposed Kabul’s U.S.-backed government on August 15, Human Rights Watch (HRW) alleged in a report published Tuesday.

The Taliban jihadist organization’s designated “prime minister” of Afghanistan, Mohammad Hassan Akhund, delivered a bizarre audio address to the nation on Sunday night declaring gratitude to the Taliban “obligatory” and claiming that widespread poverty, including malnutrition and famine fears, are “a great test from Allah.”

The Taliban is still banned from Facebook, but since the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan, the group’s Ministry of Interior has been allowed to post to Mark Zuckerberg’s massive platform.

The Afghan broadcaster Tolo News reported on Tuesday, the 100th day since the Taliban terrorist group took control of the country, that the jihadists had prompted the shutdown of at least 257 media outlets in the country, citing an Afghan NGO.

Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities on Sunday issued a new ”religious guideline” that called on the country’s television channels to stop showing dramas and soap operas featuring women actors.

The United Nations special envoy for Afghanistan warned this week that the Islamic State’s local faction now had significant representation in every province of the country, three months after the Taliban jihadist group took control over the country and a week after the Taliban insisted ISIS was not a problem.

The “foreign ministry” of the Taliban urged the United States Congress in an open letter published Wednesday to unfreeze Afghan government assets to allow them to govern effectively, asserting that they are a “united, responsible and non-corrupt government.”

The Taliban-run passport office in Kabul shut down on Tuesday, ostensibly because its biometric equipment and computer systems could not handle the enormous demand for travel documents.

Thirty-two-year-old Dr. K remembers the first time the Taliban terrorist group took over Afghanistan in 1995, according to NPR.

An “improvised explosive device” reportedly killed between one and three people and left over a dozen casualties at a mosque in Nangarhar, Afghanistan, on Friday, calling into question assurances from the Taliban terrorist group that the country’s security situation is improving.

An Afghan family showcased on CNN apparently selling their nine-year-old daughter to an older man in marriage told an Afghan media outlet in a report on Friday that the scene was staged and not depicting a child marriage contract.

The former finance minister of Afghanistan, Khalid Payenda, accused officials in the now-defunct government he served on Wednesday of failing to report soldier deaths to continue cashing those troops’ salaries for themselves.

The Taliban held a military parade for its “Islamic Emirate Army” in the city of Kandahar on Monday, featuring U.S.-made weapons, armored fighting vehicles, and helicopters seized after President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan.

In a phone conference with reporters on Monday, U.S. Special Envoy to Afghanistan Thomas West said the Biden administration is considering a “roadmap” to normalizing relations with the Taliban regime.

A top Taliban intelligence official claimed on Wednesday that the jihadist group has arrested over 600 members of the Islamic State and killed 33 fellow terrorists since taking over the country in August.

Afghanistan’s journalist union revealed on Wednesday that many of its members remain trapped in the country – where the ruling Taliban jihadists group regularly assaults and terrorizes journalists – because of “vast fraud” in which non-journalists bought reporter identification cards on the black market and used them to flee.

U.S. Special Representative to Afghanistan Thomas West on Monday hoped the Taliban would be “successful” in its battle against the Islamic State, and hinted the new rulers of Afghanistan needed to sever their ties with al-Qaeda if they desire international recognition.

The Taliban regime, which styles itself as the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” or IEA, on Sunday announced it has appointed 44 of its members as provincial governors and police chiefs. The international community has expressed unease with the Taliban’s practice of suppressing political opposition by reserving most high government offices for its own members.